Shortly after the show opened, I received a letter from Dr. Howard Rusk, founder of the Rusk Institute, complaining that I had maligned Puerto Rico in the verse, that in fact the island had a very low incidence of tropical disease.
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The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.
But with the Arcade Fire, there's no redemption in the final verse, no easy escape out on the highway.
Brown is a New Hampshire resident spending the week in New York to promote "Inferno, " a return to his beloved continent and a chance, he hopes, to interest readers in the classic 14th century journey in verse by Dante that provides the title for his new novel.
An impressive feature of the exhibition is its theater-pod, where visitors are immersed in the sound of Churchill's voice, which accompanies the verse-form text as it appeared in his copy and documentary photographs on screens to the left and right.
But it was Goethe who, in the richest of verse, made of it a drama with truly Germanic resonance.
"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
In fact, intelligent simplicity is the keynote of the acting and the verse speaking in general.
So the goal is to find a way - and look, I'm not going to cite you chapter and verse in the statute.
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Anyone, accordingly, who tries to mark out the history of the 20th century in verse faces a fairly steep slope of disbelief.
Then, in the song's last verse she quiets the audience, which had been encouraged to sing along, before imploring her grandson to seize the day.
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These attempts buck the more general trend in the app-o-verse of insulating users from any direct contact with their own data or any sense of how much control they could actually exert upon it, given the slightest effort.
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Out of the nearly 10 minutes of dense verse, this passage, and in particular the last three words, sparked a little debate among some of the intelligentsia.
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The long list includes former actress Kitty Aldridge for her third novel, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men, while Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers is the first novel written in verse to be recognised.
So my sense of seasonal happiness on Christmas Eve intensifies as the King's College Choir and congregation reach the final verse of Once in Royal David's City.
Poems read in The Poetry House will range from Anglo-Saxon and early Scottish verse to freshly-penned lines from students taking the university's degree in creative writing.
One is a scripture-backed purist of the sort you would have found in the early church, the other a 1990s realist who can also find chapter and verse to support him.
Immortalized in verse, novel and opera, the story has been altered and adapted over the centuries to suit the times.
The most common metrical form is the iambic fifteen-syllable verse in a rhyming couplet, although a poet may use eight-syllable, six-syllable or even nine-syllable verses.
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Iraqis like to say they are the best poets in the Arab world, where the continuing oral tradition and historical esteem given to poetry puts verse on TV and on the front page of papers.
There was also a tribute in verse delivered expertly by Ian Landles to the "Man that oo ca' Bill".
The poems will be published alongside 1, 300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March.
When the girl group All Saints covered it in 1998, reaching number one in the UK, they also left out the last verse.
Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.
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